Gretchen Stahlman is an Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, and she holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona's School of Information. Gretchen’s research interests focus on the social, technical and institutional infrastructures that mediate scholarly communication and long-term management of scientific data, incorporating a mixed-methods approach including interviews and workshops, survey research, bibliometrics and text analysis. Gretchen’s current research projects investigate the characteristics and accessibility of data associated with published journal articles, with a particular interest in disparate and heterogeneous “long tail” data across disciplines, as well as the information behavior of scientists seeking to publish, locate and reuse such data. The overall purpose of Gretchen’s present and future work is to inform open science and scholarly communication initiatives, along with development of methods, services and infrastructures for long-term data curation and information retrieval.